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- King Arthur (22450 bytes)
2: [[Image:Arthur3487.jpg|right|framed|Victorian image of '''King Arthur''' in plate armour with ...
13: ...riton of the period, for example [[Ambrosius Aurelianus]], led the forces battling the Saxons at the b...
21: ...killed 960 men. According to the ''[[Annales Cambriae]]'', Arthur was killed at the [[Battle of Camlan...
25: ... faith]] by "demonstrating" that Cadoc, the Christian leader, had magical powers traditionally ascribe...
27: ...e request, and fulfills the demands of Olwen's [[giant]] father [[Ysbaddaden]], which includes his hun... - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
3: ==Birth, marriage and children==
4: ...h William J. Murray Jr. and bore him a child (William). Murray was a married [[Roman Catholic]] and re...
7: ...e claimed it was unconstitutional for her son William to participate in [[Bible]] readings at Baltimor...
11: ... In [[1980]] her son William converted to [[Christianity]] and became [[born again]] at Gateway [[Bapt...
16: ...tion came from any of the O'Hairs and in 1996 William Murray filed a [[missing persons]] report. - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
3: ...girl with the curl." She became one of the [[Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood]].
7: ...e Warrens of Virginia'', which was written by William C. DeMille, brother of [[Cecil B. DeMille]], who...
13: ...tate [[Pickfair]]. However, Pickford's second marriage was also plagued with marital problems. Her str...
17: == Partial chronology ==
22: * [[1913]]: Appears (with [[Lillian Gish]]) in Belasco's Broadway production ''A Goo... - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
2: ...as a lawyer and a [[Francophone]] writer of [[Russia]]n origin.
4: ...d by [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] and [[Max Jacob]]. In [[1941]], she quit her work as a lawyer to consecrate he...
6: ...nd [[Claude Simon]], one of the figures most associated with the trend of the [[nouveau roman]]. - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
7: ...st two years later, she was educated in [[California]], graduating from [[Radcliffe College]] in 1897 ...
13: Stein, a [[lesbian]], met her life-long companion [[Alice B. Toklas...
19: ...dgments in literature and art were highly influential.
23: ...anners and manner of speech she was Victorian, socially was more liberal than not, with developed indi...
40: ...ed by the avant-garde, but mainstream success initially remained elusive. - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
2: ...[[January 5]], [[1941]]) was a famous English [[aviatrix]] who was born in [[Kingston upon Hull]].
8: ...ed in [[Darwin, Northern Territory|Darwin, Australia]] on [[May 24]] after flying 11,000 miles. Her ae...
18: ...8|De Havilland Comet]] in the England to [[Australia]] air race. Johnson was to divorce Mollison in [[...
20: ...pilot with Transport Auxiliary and, on January 5, 1941, whilst flying an [[Airspeed Oxford]] to RAF Kidl... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
3: ...92]] – [[August 31]], [[1941]]) was a [[Russia]]n [[poet]] and [[writer]].
5: ...y schools of [[Acmeist poetry|Acmeism]] and [[Russian Symbolist poetry|symbolism]].
8: ...She was also volatile and a (frustrated) concert pianist, with some [[Poland|Polish]] ancestry on her ...
10: ...clination. She wished her daughter to become a [[pianist]] and thought her poetry was poor.
12: ...during the course of her travels she acquired Italian, French and German languages. - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
1: [[Image:VirginiaWoolf.jpeg|frame|right|Virginia Woolf]]
3: ...([[January 25]], [[1882]] – [[March 28]], [[1941]]) was a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[author]] an...
7: ...oolf's work can be understood as consistently in dialogue with Bloomsbury, particularly its tendency (...
9: ... titled "Melymbrosia," but due to criticism Virginia Woolf received about the political nature of the ...
11: ... literary achievements and creativity are influential even today. - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
5: ... [[United Kingdom]], into an affluent and influential Anglo-Jewish family. Her great uncle was [[Herbe...
8: ...d at the ''British Coal Utilization Research Association'' studying the fine structure of coal and cha...
12: ...alind Franklin started working as a research associate at [[King's College London]] in the [[Medical R...
15: ...DNA, but the flaws in the model were spotted immediately by Franklin. By the beginning of 1952 it was ...
20: ...which was quite possibly caused by exposure to radiation in the course of her research. She is interre... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
3: ... at Vassar in 1931; by [[1941]] she was an [[associate professor]].
7: ...was [[A-0]]. Later versions were released commercially as the [[ARITH-MATIC]], [[MATH-MATIC]] and [[F...
14: ...or computer vendors. These tests, and their official administration, were taken over in the 1980s by ...
16: ...to her promotion to Commodore by special Presidential appointment. By [[1985]] she became a [[rear ad...
22: ...dence and is now owned by Arlington County, Virginia. - Martha Argerich (3384 bytes)
3: ...[[1941]]) is a [[pianist]] of [[Argentina|Argentinian]] origin.
5: ...in a few weeks, and her career as a professional pianist was launched.
7: ... and Liszt's ''Sixth [[Hungarian Rhapsodies|Hungarian Rhapsody]]'' remain yardsticks for these works. ...
9: ...ikovsky]]'s [[Piano Concerto No. 1 (Tchaikovsky)|Piano Concerto No. 1]]. From [[1969]] to [[1973]], Ar...
11: Argerich has been tireless in promoting younger pianists, through her annual festival, and does frequ... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
7: ...o the orchestra pit, where it terrorized the musicians, adding yet another element of excitement to th...
9: ....]], she would have suffered from the [[racism|racial]] prejudices common to the era. The writer [[Ern...
11: ...na into a sophisticated cultural figure. (The marriage was reportedly a publicity stunt and not legall...
15: ... similarly suffered, and she went through six marriages, some legal, some not.
17: ...lly|Princess Grace]] of [[Monaco]], another expatriate American entertainer living in Europe. - Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
1: ...ge:Callas as Anna Bolena.jpg|right|thumb|350px|Maria Callas in the title role of Donizetti's opera ''A...
3: ..., her repertoire ranged from classical [[opera seria]], such as [[Gaspare Spontini|Spontini]]'s ''[[La...
5: ...ext three years. In [[1947]], Callas made her Italian debut at the [[Verona Arena]] in ''[[La Gioconda...
9: ...las gave a series of master classes at the [[Juilliard School]] in New York. (These classes later form...
15: ...aaludes]]. Devetzi may have conned Callas' sister Iakintha into signing her share of the estate over t... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
4: She was born in [[Newport News, Virginia]], [[United States|USA]] and raised in [[Yonkers,...
10: She began her [[solo]] career in [[1941]]. Beginning as a [[Swing (genre)|swing]] singer,...
20: ... In 1941 she married Benny Kornegay, but the marriage was later annulled. Her second husband was the...
22: ...Inglewood Park Cemetery]] in [[Inglewood, California]].
86: == [[ Columbia_Records|Columbia]] Albums == - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
7: ...ublished in [[1956]]. She was born in [[Philadelphia]] but grew up in the [[Fells Point]] section of [...
9: ...s the father as a "[[Frank DeViese]]". Some historians consider this an anomaly, probably inserted by ...
14: ...onette's (there is still some dispute among historians about who was the first to hear and publicise h...
16: ...ter]] to glowing reviews. The performance, with pianist (and then-lover) [[Bobby Henderson]], did muc...
18: ...able timing, nuanced phrasing, and emotional immediacy. - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
5: Initially hired as a dancer, she landed her first job wi...
7: ...d accompaniments included some of the finest musicians around, most notably [[Louis Armstrong]], [[Ja...
11: ...ccompanying band included such [[Swing Era]] musicians as Frankie Newton and Chu Berry. Even [[Benny G...
17: ...r received by his father, John Lomax, in October, 1941. In the letter, Dr. W. H. Brandon, who attended t...
21: ...e taken a black patient to a white hospital, especially when there was a nearby black hospital. The dr... - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
1: [[Image:Julia_child.jpg|frame|right|Julia Child holds up a [[Monkfish]].]]
2: ...sh; [[August 13]], [[2004]]), born '''Julia McWilliams''', was a famous American gourmet [[cook]], [[a...
6: ...s]] and, after the bombing of [[Pearl Harbor]] in 1941, joined the [[Office of Strategic Services]] (OSS...
8: ...ervice as head of the Registry of the OSS Secretariat.
10: ... order to please him and entertain their large social circle. In 1948, they moved to Paris after the [... - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
3: ...[Jew]]ish woman who became a [[Partisans (Yugoslavia)|partisan]].
9: ...ic]] atmosphere. She joined ''Maccabea'', a Hungarian [[Zionism|Zionist]] student organization.
11: ...ooper training in [[Egypt]] for the British [[Special Operations Executive|SOE]].
13: ..., 1944, Hannah and her comrades crossed the Hungarian border in small groups. She was captured before ...
17: ...e the judges had even found her guilty. She kept diary entries up until her last day, November 7, 1944... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ...ly became a British agent months before the [[Special Operations Executive]] was founded in [[July]] [...
7: ...ed the worlds of work and matrimony. A first marriage, at eighteen, to businessman Karol Getlich soon...
11: ...and Kowerski made good their escape from Hungary via the [[Balkans]] and [[Turkey]].
15: ... charm transit visas through French-mandated [[Syria]] from the pro-[[Vichy]] [[France|French]] [[cons...
17: ... of [[SOE]] — in a letter of [[June 17]], [[1941]], to Polish Commander-in-Chief and Premier [[Wla... - Penny Marshall (1609 bytes)
3: She was born '''Carole Penelope Masciarelli''' in [[The Bronx]], [[New York City|New Yor...
16: *''[[The Christian Licorice Store]]'' (1971) (scenes deleted)
18: *''[[1941]]'' (1979)
24: *''[[Special Delivery (1999 film)|Special Delivery]]'' (1999)
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